The guys are discussing their summer jobs situation in Wally's room when Eddie Haskell comes in and announces that because his uncle is a friend of the owner of an Alaska fishing boat his job is going to be aboard that boat. He says he can probably wrangle jobs for Lumpy and Wally if they want one, and the guys seem intrigued. But their parents - not so much. You never see the discussion between Fred Rutherford and Lumpy, but Ward says that Wally is too young to jump into such a hard job with no turning back for the summer and says perhaps after a couple of years of college he'll reconsider.
Again, the guys are discussing the situation - Why they are not allowed permission to go to sea on this boat and Eddie is, when Beaver suggests another possibility - That Eddie is exaggerating this entire fishing boat job and perhaps it doesn't even exist given Eddie's tendency to embellish. So to prove to them that his job is real and that the boat is real, Eddie brings Lumpy and Wally with him when he goes to talk to the fishing boat captain - a real old salt. It turns out the job is not what Eddie thought it would be, and furthermore there is no shore time aboard this boat.
So Eddie wants to back out, Lumpy and Wally are glad that their parents said no, and now Eddie has to find a way to tell his father that he doesn't want to go. It's a very poignant moment between Wally and Eddie when Eddie tells Wally that he's afraid that his father will laugh at him, and worse, that he thinks his father wanted to get rid of him for the summer and will be disappointed . How will this all work out? Watch and find out. And I'll say it again - Wally is a far better friend than Eddie deserves.
You might wonder how parents could tell an adult - which Wally, Lumpy, and Eddie are at this point - that they cannot do something that they want to do. That's because the age of emancipation in most cases was still 21 at this point. The Vietnam War, in which 18 year olds fought and died in an unpopular conflict, is about to change all of that.
Again, the guys are discussing the situation - Why they are not allowed permission to go to sea on this boat and Eddie is, when Beaver suggests another possibility - That Eddie is exaggerating this entire fishing boat job and perhaps it doesn't even exist given Eddie's tendency to embellish. So to prove to them that his job is real and that the boat is real, Eddie brings Lumpy and Wally with him when he goes to talk to the fishing boat captain - a real old salt. It turns out the job is not what Eddie thought it would be, and furthermore there is no shore time aboard this boat.
So Eddie wants to back out, Lumpy and Wally are glad that their parents said no, and now Eddie has to find a way to tell his father that he doesn't want to go. It's a very poignant moment between Wally and Eddie when Eddie tells Wally that he's afraid that his father will laugh at him, and worse, that he thinks his father wanted to get rid of him for the summer and will be disappointed . How will this all work out? Watch and find out. And I'll say it again - Wally is a far better friend than Eddie deserves.
You might wonder how parents could tell an adult - which Wally, Lumpy, and Eddie are at this point - that they cannot do something that they want to do. That's because the age of emancipation in most cases was still 21 at this point. The Vietnam War, in which 18 year olds fought and died in an unpopular conflict, is about to change all of that.